Rosa 'Molineux'
A midget of a superb, award-winning rose (including 'Best New Rose of the Year'), this plant is named after the Wolverhampton Wanderers' football ground. It has short, bushy, upright growth and scented flowers, which are egg-yolk rich yellow. The ... [... more]
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Rosa 'Open Arms'
A small-scale, miniature bushy climber, this roses grows to just above head high, and is ideal for twirling up and around pillars. The clustered flowers are pale pink with striking yellow stamens, and keep appearing all summer on thornless stems, ... [... more]
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Rosa 'Little Cherub'
This is a delightful, bushy patio rose with two shades of red, the flowers being dark red with bright red in the centre. They contrast well with the healthy, disease-resistant foliage. Plant in an ornamental container, or use several such pots to ... [... more]
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Viburnum carlesii 'Aurora'
A superb bushy, deciduous shrub which easily fits into most borders because it never gets above head high. It has sensational daphne-like scent in April and May when the red buds open to reveal packed clusters of tiny pink flowers. Give it a ... [... more]
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Sweet Haze rose, Medium, Bush-cluster flowered/Floribunda
Sweet Haze rose, Bush-cluster flowered/Floribunda, , , Medium, ROSE OF THE YEAR 2008. The bushy growth is covered with large clusters of single lilac flowers. Very early into flower and almost continuous flowering it will be delightful for the ... [... more]
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Rosa 'Golden Smiles'
This is a good name for a bright, golden yellow floribunda, with abundant clusters of flowers on bushy growth all summer. It's disease-resistant and stands up well to spells of bad weather. Can be used in long, snaking rows across a square border ... [... more]
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Delphinium 'Volkerfrieden'
The Belladonna type of delphinium is shorter and stockier than the better known tall upright delphiniums of traditional herbaceous borders; they are more informal bushy plants with short spikes of densely packed flowers, each of which has a long ... [... more]
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Fraxinus ornus
It makes a perfectly decent, bushy, deciduous tree which doesn't get outrageously tall. It has dark green leaves but stands out in late spring and early summer when it has lashings of gently scented, creamy white flowers. Even better, the leaves ... [... more]
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Physocarpus opulifolius 'Dart's Gold'
This is a tall bushy North American shrub with attractive brown stems, mahogany when young, and large rich green leaves. It is very hardy and tolerates most soils, although too much chalk turns the leaves yellow. The garden form 'Dart's Gold' is ... [... more]
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Taxus baccata
Yew is a native British evergreen, whose wood was once used for making longbows. Young plants are bushy and, if left unclipped, they eventually grow into large trees almost as wide as they are tall. However they are rarely allowed to grow ... [... more]
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Acca sellowiana
This is a South American shrub, and a good choice if you want something completely different because of its marvellous midsummer show of individual purple-red flowers with white edging. Growth is solid and bushy, with grey-green leaves. It isn't ... [... more]
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Picea glauca 'Arneson's Blue'
A relative of the best-selling American conifer P. glauca var. albertiana 'Conica' a bushy shrub which has been a major hit since it wasfound in 1904 in the Canadian Rockies but this 'Arneson's Blue' is even more striking. It's a dense, shaggy ... [... more]
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